doc: give some guidelines for error messages

diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index 2dbe486eb16d8edde01ece856fa1e0ad75053042..e9917b89a91b36c87892ea1c08522f17be3c0d89 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 'git config' [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get name [value_regex]
 'git config' [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get-all name [value_regex]
 'git config' [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get-regexp name_regex [value_regex]
+'git config' [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get-urlmatch name URL
 'git config' [<file-option>] --unset name [value_regex]
 'git config' [<file-option>] --unset-all name [value_regex]
 'git config' [<file-option>] --rename-section old_name new_name
@@ -95,6 +96,14 @@ OPTIONS
        in which section and variable names are lowercased, but subsection
        names are not.
 
+--get-urlmatch name URL::
+       When given a two-part name section.key, the value for
+       section.<url>.key whose <url> part matches the best to the
+       given URL is returned (if no such key exists, the value for
+       section.key is used as a fallback).  When given just the
+       section as name, do so for all the keys in the section and
+       list them.
+
 --global::
        For writing options: write to global `~/.gitconfig` file
        rather than the repository `.git/config`, write to
@@ -295,6 +304,13 @@ Given a .git/config like this:
                gitproxy=proxy-command for kernel.org
                gitproxy=default-proxy ; for all the rest
 
+       ; HTTP
+       [http]
+               sslVerify
+       [http "https://weak.example.com"]
+               sslVerify = false
+               cookieFile = /tmp/cookie.txt
+
 you can set the filemode to true with
 
 ------------
@@ -380,6 +396,19 @@ RESET=$(git config --get-color "" "reset")
 echo "${WS}your whitespace color or blue reverse${RESET}"
 ------------
 
+For URLs in `https://weak.example.com`, `http.sslVerify` is set to
+false, while it is set to `true` for all others:
+
+------------
+% git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslverify https://good.example.com
+true
+% git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslverify https://weak.example.com
+false
+% git config --get-urlmatch http https://weak.example.com
+http.cookiefile /tmp/cookie.txt
+http.sslverify false
+------------
+
 include::config.txt[]
 
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